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I'm just supremely disappointed in the Macbook itself- I have a 3 year old Macbook Air, that is more powerful than this Retina. That's just absurd, that it's th

I'm just supremely disappointed in the Macbook itself- I have a 3 year old Macbook Air, that is more powerful than this Retina. That's just absurd, that it's that much of a step back in terms of raw CPU. Luckily however, the new 13inch MBP is actually perfect. I'm rather excited about it.

eropple 12y ago
"More powerful" is a little hard to isolate as tightly as you are doing here. The 1.1GHz model will burst a single thread at 2.9GHz. I'm disappointed there's no 16GB RAM model, and that'll keep me from buying it, but CPU perf is not on the list of my worries.
- moe 12y ago
  "More powerful" is a little hard to isolate Not really. Just look at the Passmark scores: Macbook Air (Early 2014): 4159 [1] Macbook : 3096 [2] The new Macbook is 25% slower than the MacBook Air. [1] http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4650U+%40+1.70GHz http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4650U+%40+... [2] https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+%40+1.10GHz https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+%40+1...
  - eropple 12y ago
    Where are you getting those specs? AFAIK the 2014 MacBook Air doesn't come out of the box with an i7 4650U, but rather an 4260U, which has a Passmark score of 3617. Also note that the Apple presentation noted a Turbo Boost top of 2.9GHz, not the 2.6GHz of the Core M 5Y70 that you linked. It's the difference between horsepower and 0-60. There are other factors involved. (This is largely academic, though, because I doubt anybody who owns one is going to really care.)
    - moe 12y ago
      Where are you getting those specs? I googled, for the MBA 2014: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i7-1.7-13-early-2014-specs.html http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macb... For the new Macbook you are right that Apple appears to use a slightly faster variant of the 5Y70 that doesn't seem to have a benchmark on cpubenchmark.net yet (at least I couldn't find it). I'd be surprised if these 300MHz made a significant difference, though.

eropple 12y ago

"More powerful" is a little hard to isolate as tightly as you are doing here. The 1.1GHz model will burst a single thread at 2.9GHz. I'm disappointed there's no 16GB RAM model, and that'll keep me from buying it, but CPU perf is not on the list of my worries.

moe 12y ago
"More powerful" is a little hard to isolate Not really. Just look at the Passmark scores: Macbook Air (Early 2014): 4159 [1] Macbook : 3096 [2] The new Macbook is 25% slower than the MacBook Air. [1] http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4650U+%40+1.70GHz http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4650U+%40+... [2] https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+%40+1.10GHz https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+M-5Y70+%40+1...
- eropple 12y ago
  Where are you getting those specs? AFAIK the 2014 MacBook Air doesn't come out of the box with an i7 4650U, but rather an 4260U, which has a Passmark score of 3617. Also note that the Apple presentation noted a Turbo Boost top of 2.9GHz, not the 2.6GHz of the Core M 5Y70 that you linked. It's the difference between horsepower and 0-60. There are other factors involved. (This is largely academic, though, because I doubt anybody who owns one is going to really care.)
  - moe 12y ago
    Where are you getting those specs? I googled, for the MBA 2014: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i7-1.7-13-early-2014-specs.html http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macb... For the new Macbook you are right that Apple appears to use a slightly faster variant of the 5Y70 that doesn't seem to have a benchmark on cpubenchmark.net yet (at least I couldn't find it). I'd be surprised if these 300MHz made a significant difference, though.